SCREENWRITER Frank Clarke will be the star guest at the latest Clapperboard Presents event.
The Letter to Brezhnev creator will be answering the audience’s questions at a special showing of his 1980s film, The Fruit Machine, shot on location in Liverpool.
Clarke, a former Brookside script writer and brother of actress Margi, says: “It was meant to be an allegory of what was happening to our young gay brothers, men who were brutally stolen from life by virtue of their sexuality.
“It was a time to stand up and be counted and this film is a tribute to all of our beautiful mates who didn’t make it.”
Funds raised from the event, held at Picturehouse at FACT, will go towards the Clapperboard Youth Project.
Clapperboard’s director, Maureen Sinclair, said: “The issues that Frank tackled in The Fruit Machine are still prevalent today.”
Tickets are £10 (£7 concs) from 0871 704 2063 and include a free drink.
